Addie

 
 On August 18th I was working and around 11:00 pm I started having these pains that were every 3 min.  I figured I was having contractions but they were not painful at all and I still had another month before my due date.  I continued to work and just joked about going into labor.  Around 4:30 I decided to go over to the L&D floor and get monitored during my lunch break, sure enough I was having contractions and was in labor.  This time around it was not as fast.  I ended up delivering Addie at 3:26 pm.  She weighed 6 lbs 7 oz and 18 inches long.  I thought maybe she would do okay because she was a good size but I noticed she was still a little dusky.  They took her to the NICU were I work pretty quick.  I didn't even get to see her. 
About an hour later I made my way over to see her.  She was having respitory problems so they had intubated her and started antibiotics.
The next morning they had extubated her to CPAP.  She was still working pretty hard to breath and was very irritable. By that night she was not doing well at all.  They ended up reintubating her and transfering her to Sunrise Childrens Hospital.
When we got there she was pretty sick and we were very nervous and scared.  She recieved a blood transfusion and continued to stay on the vent.  She was on 100% oxygen and unable to wean.  The next morning they figured out that her PDA was still open and causing her these

problems.  The next day they did an LP to rule out menegitis.  The following day we had a fast for her and by Sunday she completly turned around.  She was extubated, nothing was found in the LP, her PDA closed and she was doing much better.  They had started feeding her but she was very slow.  I was getting very frustrated.  On Friday the Doctor said she could go if she would eat but the nurses didn't have time to really work with her on feeds so she was not eating well.  Saturday I went in planning on staying for the next 2 days to feed her and I

explainded to the doctor how frustated I was with the feedings and that I could give her really good care at home and she agreed with me and we were discharged 2 hours later.  I was so happy.  She was only there 2 weeks but that was way to long.  I dont think we could have done it without all the prayers and fasting and the support from our families.